Course: Constitutional Law 2

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Course title Constitutional Law 2
Course code KÚP/ÚP2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vostrá Zuzana, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Forejtová Monika, Doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1. Charter of Fundamentals Rights and Basic Freedoms, its presumptions, legal status, characteristics structure, vertical and horizontal relationships and constitutional significance. 2. Ius naturale basis of human rights in the Czech Republic and its consequences, material focus of constitutionality, its content, significance and related case law. 3. Fundamental principles of the Charter, their content, form and specification in individual classifications of human rights. 4. Content of human rights in the Charter, individual, political, minority, economic, social and cultural rights, right to judicial and other legal protection. 5. Inviolability of the person, its types, concept, constitutional grounds, legal regulation and case law. 6. Voting rights, their elements, their constitutional grounds, legal regulation and case law. 7. Freedom of expression and the right to be informed, their constitutional grounds, legal regulation and case law. 8. Rights of national and ethnic minorities, their constitutional grounds, legal regulation, case law, national and supranational protection. 9. Economic, social and cultural rights, their classification, constitutional concept, legal regulation and case law. 10. Right to judicial and other legal protection, its constitutional concept and legal regulation, specific judicial doctrines of the Czech Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights. 11. Relationship of public authority and citizen in view of human rights, its classification according to status negativus, pozitivus, activus and pasivus, constitutive and constituted power. 12. Constitutional justice and its role in protection of constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights, constitutional complaint of natural and legal person. 13. Public Defender of Rights, his/her legal status, powers and competence. 14. Supranational normative systems of human rights protection, their institutional protection mechanisms and relationship to the Czech Republic constitutionality. Seminars: Selected topics from ÚP 1 a ÚP 2 lectures amended by other important issues of Czech constitutional law.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Seminar classes, Lecture
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 26 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 18 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Constitutional Law 1, Theory of State
learning outcomes
Students will - focus on constitutionally guaranteed human rights and the interactive dimensions of public authority and an individual in the constitutional model of the Czech Republic, - analyze the constitutional concept of human rights, their range, significance and most important implementing legislation, types or relationships between public authority bodies and individuals, as well as case law of the Czech Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, - acquire detailed contextual knowledge of the constitutional dimension of public and private status of man and citizen and of their normative and institutional protection as regulated by constitutional law of the Czech Republic.
teaching methods
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
assessment methods
Oral exam
Test
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • Blahož, Josef; Balaš, Vladimír,; Klíma, Karel. Srovnávací ústavní právo. 2., přeprac. vyd. Praha : ASPI, 2003. ISBN 80-86395-89-8.
  • Filip, Jan. Ústavní právo I : základní pojmy a instituty, ústavní základy ČR. 3. vyd. Brno : PF MU v Brně, 1999. ISBN 80-210-20326(Masa.
  • Klíma Karel a kol. Komentář k Ústavě a Listině, 2. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2009.
  • Klíma Karel a kol. Praktikum českého ústavního práva, 3. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7380-173-1.
  • Klíma, Karel. Encyklopedie ústavního práva. Praha : Aspi, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7357-295-2.
  • Klíma, Karel. Teorie veřejné moci (vládnutí). Praha : ASPI Publishing, 2003. ISBN 80-86395-78-2.
  • Klíma Karel. Ústavní právo, 3. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2006. ISBN 80-7380-000-4.
  • Pavlíček, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. II. díl, část 1. Ústavní právo České republiky. 2., podstatně rozš. a dopl. vyd. Praha : Linde, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7201-694-5.
  • Pavlíček, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. II. díl, část 2., Ústavní právo České republiky. Praha : Linde, 2004. ISBN 80-7201-472-2.
  • Pezl Tomáš, Pezl Michael. Dokumenty ke studiu ústavního práva, 3. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7380-099-4.
  • Wintr, Jan. Principy českého ústavního práva : (s dodatkem principů práva evropského a mezinárodního). Vyd. 1. Praha : Eurolex Bohemia, 2006. ISBN 80-86861-75-9.


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